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As many of you likely already realize, Apple announced two new camera-inclusive handhelds on Wednesday, the iPhone 5 smartphone (shown above, and also available in black) and the fifth-generation iPod touch. Both represent notable upgrades from their predecessors, both in terms of their image sensors and the image processing hardware connected to them.

If you've been following Xilinx's content contributions to the Embedded Vision Alliance website, you know that the company views its Xynq-7000 Extensible Processing Platform SoCs containing ARM Cortex-A9 processor cores as

Not to take anything away from Nintendo, who created a game console user interface mainstream breakthrough with the Wii Remote, but the company's products to at least some degree stood on the shoulders of forebears. As evidence, check out the above video, which The Verge published earlier this month.

A bit more than a year ago, in one of my first news writeups on this site, I gave my upbeat hands-on assessment of a pulse-monitoring application called Azumio. The program leverages the built-in image sensor and LED illumination resources of modern smartphones and tablets.